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The grizzly has not lost all his old instincts in 

 the Park. Around the garbage-piles he is a lazy, 

 cross pensioner. But away from them, and espe- 

 cially where he ranges outside of the Park, the 

 same bear is as alert and as energetic as ever in 

 getting a living and watching out for his safety. 

 They are tame near garbage-piles but a short dis- 

 tance away are wild. They are comparatively easy 

 to trap near the garbage-piles, where they will 

 enter a trap-door; but the same bear outside the 

 Park is extremely wary and avoids going near a 

 trap. Says William H. Wright, in "The Grizzly 

 Bear": — 



"Altogether I did not find the grizzlies of Yel- 

 lowstone Park in any degree more tame or less 

 cunning than they are to-day, for example, in the 

 Selkirks. Many of them, it is true, come to the 

 garbage-piles to feed, but these very bears, fifty 

 yards back in the timber, are again as wild as any 

 of them anjrwhere. At the canon, the garbage-pile 

 is in a hollow at the foot of rather a steep incline 

 that leads up to the edge of the woods. Bear after 

 bear, coming down the trails that converge toward 

 this point, will stop as he reaches the brink of this 

 declivity, glance downward, turn his head from 



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